Principal Engineer | Multiple Locations, USA, Global Specialty Recruiting Team

Summary

Principal Engineer role at AWS EC2, leading technical architecture, engineering practices, and high-impact systems including compute virtualization, networking, custom silicon, and AI-accelerated computing. The role combines hands-on building with organizational leadership, mentoring, and setting technical standards across distributed systems at hyperscale. Candidates should have deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, virtualization, server provisioning, networking, or cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include decomposing complex problems, understanding system dependencies, driving technical influence across teams, and guiding career development of engineers.